Today the Albuquerque Journal devotes two full pages to "Letters to the Editor." It’s a trend, newspapers giving readers more space to express themselves.
Radio call in shows, too, have exploded in recent years.
Further, the home computer and Internet have combined to make it possible for the average Joe to record his opinion in cyberspace.
Is it possible that print, radio and the Internet are giving citizens greater opportunities to put in their "two cents" at exactly the same time citizens are losing real power over government to Big Money?
I would say "yes." And I fear the powers-that-be are offering self-expression as a substitute for democracy.